Computational approaches to discourse understanding have a two-part goal: (1) identifying those aspects of discourse understanding that require process-based accounts, and (2) characterizing the processes and data structures they involve. To date, in the area of reference, process-based accounts have been developed for reference via anaphoric pronouns and via definite descriptors. In this paper...

In recent proposals for the crucial internal structure of the framing Contextual Component within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2006, 2008) — for example by Rijkhoff (2008:88-97) and Connolly (2007) —, what is here called text is considered as equivalent to discourse within an account of the NP (Rijkhoff) or of context (Connolly). The article purports to show that this con...

This paper begins in Section 1 by noting two processes that have been generally overlooked sociolinguistics. Firstly, the prevailing approaches to ethnicity tended neglect through which individuals can either adopt someone else's ethnicity, or get together with them and create a new one. Secondly, socialization sociolinguistics is most commonly seen as enculturation into an ingroup, not process...

Background and Purpose: Chinese women in Peninsular Malaysia exhibit a passive political culture. This is evidenced by the number of Parliament Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN). Despite that community-based parties have established 30 per cent quota to empower participation women, target has yet be achieved as today. Therefore, present study discussed indicators influence culture Malaysia. Among imp...